Swans Release New Album 'Birthing'

Album Review: Swans – Birthing

The term “Zen” is part of the cultural vernacular. Used as an adjective, a noun, even a verb, the mainstream usage typically refers to someone being laidback, going with the flow, or practicing acceptance. But at the heart of Zen, and Buddhism more broadly, are principles regarding the intricacies of suffering, impermanence, and, more elusively, non-self. Re the last item, the notion points to self as a construct or psychological function; the i…

Swans Release New Album 'Birthing'

Swans have shared a lyric video for 'The Healers' to celebrate the release of their seventeenth studio album, Birthing